To:V. D. BONCH-BRUYEVICH

Published:First published in 1933 inLenin Miscellany XXI.

      Printed from the typewritten original signed by V. I. Lenin.Source:Lenin
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      Progress Publishers,[1976],

      Moscow,Volume 35,

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VladimirDmitriyevich Bonch-Bruyevich,Office Manager, Council of People’s Commissars

Inview of your failure to fulfil my insistent request to
point out to me the justification for raising my salary as
from March 1, 1918, from 500 to 800 rubles a month, and in
view of the obvious illegality of this increase, carried out by
you arbitrarily by agreement with the secretary of the
Council, Nikolai Petrovich Gorbunov, and in direct infringement
of the decree of the Council of People’s Commissars of
November 23, 1917, I give you a severe
reprimand.[1]

V.Ulyanov(Lenin)Chairman, Council of People’s Commissars

[1]Leninrefers to the decision of the Council of People’s
Commissars, passed on November 18 (December 1), 1917, “On the
Remuneration of People’s Commissars, Senior Government Employees
and Officials”, =

which he had drafted. It set the maximum monthly
salary for Commissars at 500 rubles with an allowance of 100
rubles for each member of the family unable to work.

Leninalso imposed a severe reprimand on N. P. Gorbunov,
Secretary of the C.P.C.